Viktoria Spaiser
@viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social
Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science, University of Leeds, UK. Interested in climate movements, norms, environmental (political) behaviour, tipping points, AI, https://cdp.leeds.ac.uk/research/normative-change-climate-emergency/
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Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Tune in today for this free #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar on #Ocean #TippingPoints and why they matter
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tune in today for this free #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar on #Ocean #TippingPoints and why they matter
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Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
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Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
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A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative
How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?
www.scri.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
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Climate Wake-Up Call🚨
New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...
New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Climate Wake-Up Call🚨
New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...
New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...
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"Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd"...the organisation’s submission writer has admitted using AI."
And, look who supports RRA ;)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
And, look who supports RRA ;)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd"...the organisation’s submission writer has admitted using AI."
And, look who supports RRA ;)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
And, look who supports RRA ;)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.
The second Global Tipping Points Report has been launched today. Please see our press release here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30
Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30
‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
www.leeds.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The second Global Tipping Points Report has been launched today. Please see our press release here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30
Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30
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What are 'derailment risks' and how are they rapidly increasing? Join me for an in-person & online panel discussion at Chatham House, London: 28 OCTOBER 2025 — 5:00PM TO 6:00PM
www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
How should the world confront climate derailment risks?
In this event, expert panellists discuss climate derailment risks, and how these risks can be tackled.
www.chathamhouse.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What are 'derailment risks' and how are they rapidly increasing? Join me for an in-person & online panel discussion at Chatham House, London: 28 OCTOBER 2025 — 5:00PM TO 6:00PM
www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
Select tickets – "Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds
"Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - We are delighte...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
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British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
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I am SO EXCITED about this!
Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.
Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.
jointheshift.earth
Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.
Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.
jointheshift.earth
SHIFT
jointheshift.earth
September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I am SO EXCITED about this!
Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.
Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.
jointheshift.earth
Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.
Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.
jointheshift.earth
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This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🟢📣 Only 1 day left to apply for our 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍
All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
@zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍
All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
@zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de
Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...
eu.boell.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🟢📣 Only 1 day left to apply for our 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍
All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
@zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍
All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
@zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de
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New article!
What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
New article!
What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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🌍 Carbon storage is not a limitless climate solution.
A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C.
Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
@gidden.bsky.social
A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C.
Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
@gidden.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🌍 Carbon storage is not a limitless climate solution.
A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C.
Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
@gidden.bsky.social
A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C.
Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
@gidden.bsky.social
Our co-produced #PolicyBrief following our event "Accelerating #SocialChange in Response to the #Climate and #EcologicalCrisis", is out now, see here: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Our co-produced #PolicyBrief following our event "Accelerating #SocialChange in Response to the #Climate and #EcologicalCrisis", is out now, see here: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
People do care! Exposure to moral appeals (moral implications of fossil fuels etc.) can reduce people's carbon footprints, while also increasing climate-related civic and political action, though it may backfire among individuals with strong egoistic values. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
People do care! Exposure to moral appeals (moral implications of fossil fuels etc.) can reduce people's carbon footprints, while also increasing climate-related civic and political action, though it may backfire among individuals with strong egoistic values. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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🌴 Ahead of the much awaited #ICJ
#AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the
@uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe...
Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍
#AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the
@uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe...
Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍
How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts
Four international courts are due to deliver advisory opinions on how governments are legally responsible for climate justice.
theconversation.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🌴 Ahead of the much awaited #ICJ
#AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the
@uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe...
Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍
#AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the
@uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe...
Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍
Here is a great summary of the #GlobalTippingPoints Conference 2025 in Exeter by @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/tipping-poin...
The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched
The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched
Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is 'rapidly closing' - Carbon Brief
In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently...
www.carbonbrief.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here is a great summary of the #GlobalTippingPoints Conference 2025 in Exeter by @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/tipping-poin...
The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched
The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched
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NEW – Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z
Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z
July 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEW – Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z
Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z
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Coral reefs are now “flickering out across the world” -
‘It’s death by a thousand cuts"
- latest in tipping points series from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s death by a thousand cuts"
- latest in tipping points series from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs
David Obura believes humans have been using nature for free, and tipping points at some reefs have already passed
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Coral reefs are now “flickering out across the world” -
‘It’s death by a thousand cuts"
- latest in tipping points series from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s death by a thousand cuts"
- latest in tipping points series from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Me and some others managed to finally publish a (long) review on social tipping, when it might occur, and what that means from a network science perspective:
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
The Pareto effect in tipping social networks: from minority to majority
Abstract. How do social networks tip? A popular theory is that a small minority can trigger population-wide social change. This aligns with the Pareto principle, a semi-quantitative law which suggests...
esd.copernicus.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Me and some others managed to finally publish a (long) review on social tipping, when it might occur, and what that means from a network science perspective:
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Long in the making, finally happening this week at Brussels: #GenAIResearchRetreat2025 - Exploring new generative #AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems.
Exciting programme, great group:
computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...
Exciting programme, great group:
computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...
Program
Exploring new generative AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems
Date: 9th – 13th June 2025
Venue: Brussels, Belgium (Double Tree By Hilton Brussels City Hot...
computationalclimateactionlab.github.io
June 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Long in the making, finally happening this week at Brussels: #GenAIResearchRetreat2025 - Exploring new generative #AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems.
Exciting programme, great group:
computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...
Exciting programme, great group:
computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...
Happening today "Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis" in Friends House, London: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/events/accel...
So excited to learn from so many wonderful contributors. A co-produced policy brief will summarise the man insights and recommendations.
So excited to learn from so many wonderful contributors. A co-produced policy brief will summarise the man insights and recommendations.
Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis
This is a stakeholder event, open to researchers, activists, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, campaigners, artists, communicators etc. who are working on climate change and the ecological crisis.
cdp.leeds.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Happening today "Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis" in Friends House, London: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/events/accel...
So excited to learn from so many wonderful contributors. A co-produced policy brief will summarise the man insights and recommendations.
So excited to learn from so many wonderful contributors. A co-produced policy brief will summarise the man insights and recommendations.